Editing and Revising Quiz

What is the most effective revision to make in sentence 12? (12) Inventing the waxed paper bag, Mrs. Scudder each night had women take home sheets of waxed paper.

• Mrs. Scudder had women take home sheets of wax paper, inventing the waxed paper bag.

• Inventing the waxed paper bag, women took home sheets of waxed paper nightly because Mrs. Scudder told them to.

• When she invented the waxed paper bag, Mrs. Scudder had women take home sheets of waxed paper nightly.

• Mrs. Scudder had women take home sheets of waxed paper; inventing the paper bag.

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CCSS.L.11-12.3A

CCSS.L.7.1C

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 4 and 5? (4) Salting them excessively when they finished cooking. (5) Crum was certain this would infurriate and disgust the complainer.

• Due to an excess of salt, Crum was certain this would infuriate and disgust the complainer.

• Crum salted them excessively when they finished cooking and was sure this would infuriate and disgust the complainer.

• In order to infuriate and disgust the complainer, Crum salted them excessively when they finished cooking.

• Because he salted them excessively when they finished cooking, Crum was certain this would infuriate and disgust the complainer.

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CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B

Gail has not used the most effective transition in sentence 10. Which transition should replace the word in sentence 10?. (10) Furthermore, Laura Scudder owned a successful chip factory in 1926 and wanted to tackle the freshness problem.

• Even though

• Later

• Meanwhile

• As a result

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.1.1G

CCSS.L.5.1A

What change, if any, should be made to Sentence 3? (3) The chef, George Crum furious that someone would dare complain about his food, sliced potatoes very thinly and dumped them in hot oil.

• Delete the comma after chef

• Insert a comma after George Crum

• Change potatoes to potatoes’

• No change should be made to sentence 3.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 5? (5) Crum was certain this would infurriate and disgust the complainer.

• Change was to is

• Insert a comma after disgust

• Change infurriate to infuriate

• No change should be made to sentence 5.

Tags

CCSS.L.2.2C

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 1? (1) In 1853, a chef in Saratoga, New York, invented potato chips in a fit of anger.

• Delete the comma after 1853

• Change invented to invents

• Change potato chips to Potato Chips

• No change should be made.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.2.2B

CCSS.L.3.2B

CCSS.L.3.2C

CCSS.L.4.2B

What change, if any, should be made to sentence 17? (17) The invention and popularity of potato chips in the beginning of the 20th century, helped pave the road to the variety and obsessions we have with them today.

• Delete the comma after century

• Change obsessions to obsesions

• Change them to it

• No change should be made to sentence 17

Tags

CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.4.2C

What change, if any, should be made to Sentence 15? (15) The airtight bag kept the chips fresh, grocers could then market the product as a self-serve item.

• Replace the comma after fresh with a semicolon

• Change grocers to grocer’s

• Change then to than

• No change should be made.

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.2A

If a question says to combine two sentences, what should you do?

• Write out both sentences with a semicolon between them

• Just put a comma between the two sentences

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CCSS.L.9-10.2A

What is the most effective way to combine sentences 5 and 6?

• Lowering the voting age could empower students to become involved civically in their communities and could produce, more student interest in laws impacting their city and state.

• Lowering the voting age could empower students to become involved civically in their communities which could produce more student interest in laws impacting their city and state.

• Lowering the voting age could empower students to become involved civically in their communities however could produce more student interest in laws impacting their city and state.

• Lowering the voting age could empower students to becoming involved civically in their communities and producing more student interest in laws impacting their city and state.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.1H

CCSS.L.5.1E

CCSS.L.2.1F

CCSS.L.3.1I

CCSS.L.7.1B